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plagiarism

[pley-juh-riz-uhm, -jee-uh-riz-] / ˈpleɪ dʒəˌrɪz əm, -dʒi əˌrɪz- /


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The 41-year-old had faced allegations of plagiarism and questions about some of his achievements.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

When a student submits a paper written by a chatbot instead of their own work, should this be considered plagiarism?

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

As the controversy engulfed the confirmation process, the conservative-leaning Wall Street Journal revived a nearly two-decade-old plagiarism accusation against Totenberg, dating from her time as a reporter for the National Observer.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

Arday, who denied plagiarism, quit his professorship at Cambridge.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Surely the similarities were inadvertent, he suggested, since Jackson was obviously a virtuous man and thus incapable of plagiarism.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

That a lot of these supposed plagiarisms were things in speeches, or I guess also in books.

From Slate Nov. 12, 2013

I doubt that a single person could track down all the plagiarisms in QR Markham's spy novel Assassin of Secrets; but a group certainly could and did, and with remarkable speed.

From The Guardian Aug. 3, 2012

Dickens' novels are hardly less theatrical, as his contemporaries realized to their quick profit: several stage plagiarisms of Nicholas Nickleby were on the London boards before the novel's serial publication was complete.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now--after New York Times reporter Jayson Blair was caught in a string of plagiarisms and fabrications, ultimately leading to a staff revolt and the resignation of Times executive editor Howell Raines--it seems prescient.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you think so, by adding it to the other plagiarisms of the same author, noted in some of your former numbers, you will confer a great honour on A SCHOOLBOY.

From Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various




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